Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2021)

• EDITORIAL

  Cristina Varsavsky

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• COMMITTEE AND REVIEWERS

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• INVITED SPEAKERS

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Keynote Presentations (Abstract)

• HOW DO OUR PROGRAMS AND COURSES NEED TO CHANGE TO BETTER INCLUDE, EQUIP, AND EMPOWER LEARNERS?

  Alison Flynn

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• NAVIGATING VIDEO-BASED LEARNING IN SCIENCE – HOW DO WE CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN ONLINE AND PHYSICAL CLASSROOMS?

  Jack T. H. Wang

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Abstracts

• SCIENCE STUDENT REFLECTION ON INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMPETENCY LEARNING

  Paris Allridge, Angela Ziebell

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• UNDERSTANDING AND SCAFFOLDING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE OF DISPERSION FORCES THROUGH MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS

  Lauren Baade, Efpraxia Kartsonaki, Gwendolyn A. Lawrie

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• CHEMISTRY LABORATORY INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS, HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

  Sabrina Barakat, Stephen George-Williams, MaryKay Orgill, Reyne Pullen

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• STUDENT RESPONSE TO A MULTI-TOPIC KITCHEN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE CORE BIOLOGY

  Adrienne Burns, Nicholas Andronicos, Sinead Henderson, Lea Labeur

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• AN INVESTIGATION OF INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING IN CHEMISTRY LABORATORIES IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AND FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY

  Michael Calarese, Alexandra Yeung, Mauro Mocerino, David Treagust

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• THE URE AS A VEHICLE FOR EMPLOYABILITY DEVELOPMENT – THE SUPERVISORS SPEAK

  Lauren Jane Carpenter, Susan Rowland

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• INVESTIGATING STUDENT CONCEPTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MODELLING, ATOMIC STRUCTURE, AND BONDING MODELS

  Marley Chia, Efpraxia Kartsonaki, Gwendolyn Lawrie

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• RETENTION, RESULTS AND STUDENT FEEDBACK; LESSONS LEARNT FROM A COVID-IMPOSED UNIT RESTRUCTURE

  Hilary Coleman

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• THE CHANGING FACE OF SCHOOL TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: PRE-, DURING AND POST-COVID

  Simon Crook

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• DEVELOPING ANALYTICAL AND ACADEMIC WRITING PRACTICES THROUGH A SUSTAINABLE BLENDED LEARNING PROGRAM

  Yvonne C. Davila, Matthew P. Padula, Neela Griffiths

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• SCALABLE AND EFFECTIVE USE OF VIRTUAL REALITY FOR PHYSICS EDUCATION

  John Elias Debs

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• TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO EMPOWER STUDENTS WHO ARE BLIND OR LOW VISION AS INDEPENDENT LEARNERS IN THE CHEMISTRY LABORATORY

  Prarthana Devi, Alice Motion, Jasodhara Bhattacharya, Cary A. Supalo, Siegbert Schmid

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• CAREER IDENTITY AND MENTORING IN FIRST YEAR PHYSICS UNDERGRADUATES

  Annette Dowd, Helena Asher-Chiang, Daniel Totonjian, Danica Solina

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• HOW CAN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT ALLOW FOR TRANSFERABLE LEARNING IN SCIENCE?

  Annette Dowd, Camille Dickson-Deane

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• EMERGENCY-REMOTE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES FOR QUALITY ONLINE EDUCATION AT TRADITIONAL CONTACT UNIVERSITIES

  Shalini Dukhan

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• EFFECT OF SELF-REGULATED LEARNING TRAINING ON FOUNDATION BIOSCIENCE STUDENTS

  Vicki Dunk, Pam Megaw, Tanya Doyle, Helen Boon

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• INTERDISCIPLINARY, INDUSTRY-BASED WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING (WIL): TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS

  Sonia Julie Ferns, Susan Benson, Aloke Phatak, Nina Kumagai, Zachary Riordan

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• UTILISING TECHNOLOGIES FOR POST-COVID MULTIMODAL COURSE ENGAGEMENT: AN INITIAL STUDY

  Michael J Gladys, Lachlan Rogers, Galiya Sharafutdinova, Nicholas Barnham, Patrick Nichols, Paul McDonald, Paul Dastoor

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• MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATIONS IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF REPRESENTATION SEQUENCING ON STUDENT CONCEPTIONS OF RESONANCE THEORY

  Brodie Jade Harp, Kim Nichols, Gwendolyn Lawrie

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• INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS IN SCIENCE-BASED DEGREE PROGRAMS: STUDENT SATISFACTION OUTCOMES WITH DIFFERENT PROJECT DELIVERY MODELS

  Joanne Hart, Elisa Bone

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• NUANCING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MULTI-DISCIPLINE MATHS AND STATS SUPPORT IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENT SUCCESS

  Deborah Cheryl Jackson

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• OUR APPROACH TO ONLINE, ASYNCHRONOUS LECTURES

  Kate Jackson, Elizabeth Angstmann

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• IMPLEMENTING DNA AND RNA NANOPORE SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY IN UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING

  Michael Janitz

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• FACTORS AFFECTING 1ST YEAR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS’ STATISTICS LEARNING; THE EFFECT OF MINDFULNESS WEB-BASED INTERVENTION DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

  Mitra Jazayeri, Xia Li, Eric Morris, Dan Laurence, Birgit Loch

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• EVALUATING CO-TEACHING AS AN ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR ONLINE LEARNING SCIENCE STUDENTS

  Christopher E. Jones, Jo-Anne Chuck, Gabriel G. Perrone

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• FOSTERING GROUP WORK AND CONNECTION ONLINE: THE JUXTAPOSED VIEW OF STUDENT AND EDUCATOR

  Tracey Kuit

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• COVID-19 - A MUTATION IN THE EVOLUTION OF PRE-CLINICAL DENTISTRY AT A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY

  Sharron Long

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• STUDENTS’ LEARNING EXPERIENCES OF LIGHTBOARD AND POWERPOINT INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS

  Ryan Eian Lopez, Dino Spagnoli

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• CAPTURING THE ESSENCE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDTRIP EXPERIENCE USING AN ONLINE SETTING

  Simone Louwhoff, Singarayer Florentine, Kushan Tennakoon

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• COMPARING THE QUESTIONS IN ONLINE CHEMISTRY EXAMS TO PAPER-BASED EXAMS WITH THE USE OF BLOOMS TAXONOMY

  Alice Lu, Stephen George-Williams, Reyne Pullen

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• DEVELOPMENT OF A SUSTAINABLE ONLINE ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER GARDEN FOR LEARNING IN HEALTH SCIENCES

  Isabelle Lys, Rachel Crawford, Peter Weyand

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• WHEN WRITING THE ASSESSMENT BECOMES THE ASSESSMENT

  Shannan J. Maisey, Laura K. McKemmish, Siobhán S. Wills

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• WALKING INTO A PROTEIN MOLECULE TOGETHER: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EXPLORATION OF AN ENZYME-SUBSTRATE INTERACTION IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY

  Henry Matovu, Dewi Ungu, Mihye Won, David Treagust, Mauro Mocerino, Roy Tasker, Ching-Chung Tsai

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• INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS MADE BY FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS DURING A SEMESTER OF ONLINE LEARNING

  Natasha McGuire, Louise Ainscough, Kay Colthorpe, Judit Kibedi

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• BENEFITS AND BARRIERS OF ONLINE SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT: AUDIENCE AND PRESENTER EXPERIENCES OF 2020 NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK

  Olivia Frances McRae, Ellie Downing, Alice Motion, Chiara O'Reilly, Reyne Pullen

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• AN ONLINE MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS REFRESHER PROGRAM FOR THE COVID-19 ERA AND BEYOND

  Jim Pettigrew, Leanne Rylands, Lyn Armstrong, Don Shearman, Adelle Colbourn, Gizem Intepe, Susan McGlynn

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• PERSPECTIVES ON MOVING TOWARDS ONLINE LEARNING DUE TO THE DISRUPTIONS OF COVID-19

  Yuchen Qian, Alexandra Yeung, Dino Spagnoli

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• PROMOTING INCLUSION IN ONLINE FIRST-YEAR CHEMISTRY THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING FRAMEWORK

  Charisse Tongson Reyes, Gwendolyn Lawrie, Christopher Thompson, Sara H. Kyne

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• PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES AND SELF-ESTEEM

  Emma Richards, Kay Colthorpe, Louise Ainscough, Judit Kibedi

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• BLENDED DELIVERY OF UNDERGRADUATE CHEMISTRY LABORATORIES DUE TO COVID-19

  Georgina Sauzier

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• SCAFFOLDING FOR IMPACT: ACTIVE LEARNING IN FORENSIC EDUCATION

  Georgina Sauzier, Alexandra Yeung, Simon W. Lewis

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• VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE, REAL LEARNING

  Matthew J. Sellwood, Wendy Zhang, Martin Brown, Philip Poronnik, Craig R Campbell

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• MOTIVATING MEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS

  Danielle Skropeta

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• VIDEO-BASED COURSE INSTRUCTIONS AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE ENGAGEMENT IN AN ONLINE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

  Angela Elisabeth Stott

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• LEARNING AQUAPONICS POST COVID-19 THROUGH START-UP INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

  Daniel Kean Yuen Tan, Anowarul Bokshi, Brian Jones, Floris Van Ogtrop, Oscar Wang, Geert Hendrix

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• ENGAGING WITH PHYSICAL MODELS, COMPUTER SIMULATIONS, AND IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY TO UNDERSTAND MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

  Dewi Ungu, Henry Matovu, Mihye Won, David Treagust, Mauro Mocerino, Roy Tasker, Chin-Chung Tsai

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• STUDENT DEVELOPMENT OF PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS USING METACOGNITIVE SCAFFOLDING

  Kimberly Vo, Elizabeth Yuriev, Mahbub Sarkar, Paul White

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• KEY DRIVERS FOR ASSESSMENT CHANGE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

  Lara Wakeling, Danielle Wagstaff, Tulsa Andrews

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• A BLENDED NEW WORLD: SCIENCE SKILLS SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN A PANDEMIC

  Joshua Wang, Dana Burfeind, Christine A Devine

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• SUDDENLY SIMULTANEOUS: DUAL DELIVERY IN ON-CAMPUS AND ONLINE MODES

  Margaret Wegener, SLOCI Team C/- Ciara Horton

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• CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS OF BUILDING ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES WITH STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE DISCIPLINES AND BACKGROUNDS

  Nirmani Wijenayake

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• TEACHING ASSOCIATES’ AND STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF ONLINE LEARNING IN A SCIENCE DEGREE

  Sarah Yang, Elizabeth Yuriev, Jennifer Short

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Non-refereed Papers

• SENIOR PHYSICS SHORT COURSES

  Geoff Swan

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Refereed Papers

• HOW PROPORTIONING MARKS AFFECTS THE PERFORMANCE OF ALLIED HEALTH STUDENTS IN A PHARMACOLOGY COURSE

  Sheila Doggrell

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• BACK TO THE FUTURE: FACILITATING ASSESSMENT DESIGN, COLLABORATION, AND OUTCOMES ALIGNMENT WITH AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

  Philip J. MacKinnon, Kristy C. Osborne, Alan Hayes, Louise Lexis, Deanne H. Hryciw, Michelle Towstoless, Kathy Tangalakis

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• ARE ONLINE EXAMINATIONS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO PAPER-BASED EXAMINATIONS FOR ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY?

  Karen Elizabeth Mate, Jude Weidenhofer

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Workshops (Discipline Day)

• SHARING OF ONLINE RESCOURCES FOR TEACHING PHYSICS

  Jacinta den Besten, Kate Jackson, Elizabeth Angstmann

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• CHEMISTRY DISCIPLINE MEETING

  Stephen George-Williams, Sara H. Kyne, Reyne Pullen, Erica Smith, Elizabeth Yuriev

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• BACK TO THE FUTURE: FACILITATING ASSESSMENT DESIGN, COLLABORATION, AND OUTCOMES ALIGNMENT WITH AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

  Philip J. MacKinnon, Alan Hayes, Ammar Aldaoud, Kristy C. Osborne, Louise Lexis, Kathy Tangalakis

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• TEACHING FOR DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN STEM: IN PRACTICE

  Reva Ramiah, Lisa Godinho, Joanne Castelli, Angela Ziebell, Stephen George-Williams

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• A VISION FOR ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE

  Christopher Thompson, Rebecca LeBard, Michael Drinkwater

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